International learning

Use of technology in lectures

Throughout her teaching, Sue aims to use technology to enhance communication with her students, from interactive ResponseWare in lectures, to using Padlet to interact with her students outside of the classroom. These tools are particularly well-received by international students, as they open up a number of streams of communication that allow international students to share their perspectives easily and effectively, in addition to allowing them access to University of Exeter facilities and resources from anywhere in the world.

Sue incorporates leading technologies into her teaching, to explore how technology can be used to make the learning experience even more engaging for students. Using the interactive ResponseWare system TurningPoint, she provides students with the opportunity to have a voice in the shaping of their learning experience.

“I think the use of [Turning Point] will help develop a first class education… because we can think much more excitingly and innovatively about how we can change the way that we teach, so it’s not that we are living in a world where technology is something that you only think about in terms of science fiction or fantasy, its actually about embracing it as something that is a fundamental part of the way that we teach”.

Promoting multi-disciplinarity through Grand Challenges

Sue also runs the Grand Challenges project, Beyond Conflict, which aims to explore how to resolve conflicts through a more creative and accessible way, through using real examples of conflict encountered by different businesses and organisations. Grand Challenges is a week-long summer programme where University of Exeter undergraduates work together in interdisciplinary research groups, alongside top academics in order to address some of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century.

As Sue explains, the merit of multi-disciplinary learning is that “there are lots of lessons to learn from experts in other fields and students studying in other fields about how we can best deal with conflict”.

Aim 4: International learning, research & experiences

To provide international perspectives in all programmes and a multi-cultural experience for all students